Federated Investors Implements Cadis EDM to Improve Data Management
Federated Investors is implementing the Cadis enterprise data management (EDM) platform to increase operational efficiency, reduce risk and manage data across multiple acquisitions that have supported the $370 billion asset manager’s growth in recent years. The selection of the Cadis EDM, a service oriented architecture (SOA) platform that allows data to be accessed wherever it...
Asset Control Readies AC Plus Data Platform for Transparency Regulations
Asset Control has rebuilt the heart of its AC Plus data management platform to meet demands for transparency in pending regulations such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and Europe’s Basel III and Solvency II directives. The transparency aspects of incoming regulations is having a significant impact on firms’ approaches to data management, a theme that...
Andrew’s Blog – MoneyMate Hopes to Capitalise on Fund Data Distribution Challenge
With a newly rebranded fund data management product, and a newly installed London business development executive in the form of Rachael Brown, MoneyMate is seeking to capitalise on the challenge of data management facing fund managers’ distribution operations. According to CEO Paul Fawsitt, fund managers are seeking to gain control over the data they need...
PolarLake Proposes SOA and Semantics for Big Data Management
PolarLake has responded to market – and regulator – demand for a real-time consolidated view of trade, position, reference and client data that can inform operational efficiency, risk management and compliance with a virtualised data warehouse solution based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies. The virtualised data warehouse plays into not only risk and...
Thomson Reuters Puts Onus on Management to Improve Performance
Thomson Reuters is pinning hopes for growth in its Financial & Risk business on the management team formed early this year under the auspices of president David Craig, and a change in attitude to Eikon – no longer a strategy, instead one of many products. The late 2011 shake-up and reorganisation of Thomson Reuters that...
Rainier Investment Management Selects Charles River as Data Source
Rainier Investment Management is delivering improved and more timely data to its portfolio managers and traders as a result of switching its data source from an incumbent supplier to the Charles River data service and upgrading its implementation of the Charles River investment management solution (IMS). The employee owned, Seattle-based investment bank went live with...
Bloomberg Ups the Open Ante
For those of you who have viewed Bloomberg’s moves towards openness to date with a sceptical eye, today’s announcement that it is making its Bloomberg API available to all – free of cost or restrictions – may force a rethink. Making the API – known among friends as BLPAPI – available to potentially competitive market...
Demand for Data Management Driven by Risk and Regulation
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has secured 19 new global clients in 2011. These firms benefit from cleansed, validated and centralised data to feed into their risk, trading and compliance platforms. New notable clients include Prudential, ING, Loomis Sayles, Robeco, SCOR Global Investments and Indexium. “2012 will be the year of data overload for financial...
Torstone Tackles Post-Trade Processing, Risk and Reference Data with Inferno
Torstone Technology has launched a new post-trade processing platform, using the software-as-a-service model. Torstone’s Inferno system aims to reduce middle and back-office costs while improving risk and reference data management with a solution tried and tested at Belgian banking group KBC. The software behind Inferno was originally developed and is used by KBC Group, and...
Rainier Investment Management Live on Charles River Data Service
Charles River Development (Charles River), a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that Rainier Investment Management (Rainier), an employee-owned investment firm with headquarters in Seattle, is live on the Charles River Data Service for reference data and real-time equity and fixed income market data. Rainier’s portfolio managers and traders receive data that...